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Definitely contact Awesome Caribbean Weddings. I'm getting married in St. Lucia in June and they have been very easy to work with and promptly respond to my emails. Even though I wanted a destination wedding I didn't want a cookie cutter resort wedding where I had such limited choices (ie. flowers option A or B ). Working with Michelle I have had full control over what I want. From my research, it is cheaper to stay in the north which is where Windjammer is located. The main area in the north where there are a lot of restaurants and things is called Rodney Bay, Windjammer isn't within walking distance of Rodney Bay but it wouldn't be a long taxi ride! I was originally really hoping to get married with a view of the Pitons but it just wasn't feasible to stay in the north and get married in the south (and it was a more money to ask my guests to pay for accomodations in the south). The car ride is more than an hour over very bumpy and narrowly winding roads. My wedding planner did offer me an option to rent a Catamaran to transport everyone to and from the wedding but the expense of the Catamaran on top of a more expensive ceremony location just didn't make sense for us. We almost stayed at Bay Gardens Beach Resort - within walking distance to Rodney Bay. They do have an all-inclusive option but we were not going to chose this since we would have been so close to all of the restaurants. We ended up renting private villas in the north for our acommodations. Our ceremony is at the Cliff View location and our reception will be at Beach Club 1461. I know that even without that Piton view our wedding will still be what we want! I've done a TON of research so let me know if you have any other questions!

I'm getting married in St. Lucia June 2015! We are also working with Michelle at Awesome Caribbean Weddings- she is part of the reason we chose St. Lucia. It has been so easy working with her, just send an e-mail and whatever I need is done. We rented out private villas for the accomodations for our families. We are getting married at the Cliff View location and having the reception at 1461 Beach Club. How is everyone's wedding planning coming along?

I attended a wedding here in Dec 2014. The wedding was beautiful and the food at Havana Blue was great(especially the salad with the fried cheese croutons and pineapple dressing)! The things that were "wedding" related went smoothly. There was no problem sitting ~30 people together at Havana Blue. They lined up a long row of tables along the side and even created little menus with a picture of the couple. The things that were not related to the wedding did not go well! Everyone had issues with the Marriot hotel. It took a long time to check-in and when we opened the door to our room we found that someone was already checked into the room. We were lucky that they weren't there when we walked in! Another hour or so later they were able to find us an unoccupied room. A different guest at the wedding checked into a dirty room -there was even mold all over the shower curtain. They weren't able to find her another room that night so she ended up staying in a room with another guest. Another guest ordered a glass of milk through room service for their child and it took over 3 hours for it to be delivered. The service at the restaurants was absolutely terrible. Expect it to take atleast 2 1/2 hours on average to eat any meal. We went back to Havana Blue the day after the wedding and it took over 2 hours for me to get a salad. When I got the salad it wasn't even what I ordered. We were in a hurry to get to an excursion so I didn't even get a replacement and still had to pay over $20 for the salad. Overall the wedding was nice but I will never stay at that resort again. It was a very disappointing experience with Marriot!